Re: Problems with gnus-refer-article-method

[Christian Gudrian <Christian@Gudrian.de>]

Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:

> So you tried frobbing nnfolder-marks-is-evil and neither value
> worked?  Hm.  It was just a stab in the dark, anyway.

I think I have been able to shed some light on this issue:

,----[ snippet from nnfolder.el ]
| (deffoo nnfolder-request-article (article &optional group server buffer)
|   (nnfolder-possibly-change-group group server)
|   (save-excursion
|     (set-buffer nnfolder-current-buffer)
|     (goto-char (point-min))
|     (when (nnfolder-goto-article article)
|       (let (start stop)
| 	(setq start (point))
| 	(forward-line 1)
`----

This function is called whenever gnus searches for a MID.  However,
the call to set-buffer gets executed even if nnfolder-current-buffer
is nil -- which of course yields an error message (wrong-type-argument
stringp nil).  Thus it's not possible to search for MIDs in archive
groups from the outside.  Or have I got something wrong?

Christian